Rats Quotes

It was one of the spookiest jobs I`ve ever had, but Alcatraz was not the problem. Most of the film was done in L.A. I`m in this four-by-six cell--wet, naked, covered in shit, live bugs in my hair, live rats chewing on my leg, Chained to the walls for a lot of it. Being beaten by Gary Oldman; of course, I can`t think of anyone I would rather be beaten by. One day, it was four-thirty on a Monday morning, we`d been working all night, and the ground started shaking. We were right near the epicenter. It was a horrible experience. Here I was, naked, shackled in this cell, and just every day playing some new level of agony. It was the closest I`d ever come to losing it. I`d cry on the way to work. (On filming Murder in the First during the 1994 Northridge earthquake)

In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.

I`d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

This is the most important tour in Ireland since the Rats because I`ve built up a body of songs, since we split, as a solo artist.

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I`ve always liked the way they look. Even rats. I`m not scared of them.

Jimmy would judge all patience tests against that first night in Deer Island (Prison), ... He would tell himself that he could stand in place for as long as necessary -- a day or two -- to get what he wanted, because nothing could rival that long first night with the living machine of a prison grumbling and rasping all around him as the rats screeched and bedsprings creaked and screams died as soon as they were born.

We hadn`t seen any rats or evidence of rats until the school district started the eradication program, and then we started to see evidence of the rats moving across the fence line.

Instead of starting the eradication on the outskirts and forcing the rats in they bombed the garden and moved them out of the area and forced them here. I understand the pressure they were under to take care of the rats and open the school but they didn`t consider anything else besides their own problem.

There`s so many new drinks that are fruity, sweet, kind of taste like soda. It`s an easy way to introduce someone to alcohol. ... In the old days, when people wanted to do research on alcohol using rats, to get them to initiate drinking you had to introduce sugar to make them drink. We used to do it with rats. Now we do it with people.

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don`t want to be the last man standing.

I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I don`t want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, it`s really hot, we`re up to our knees in a river of (excrement). Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

In the future we`ll have to change our name to the Rats or something,

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats

I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, '˜Beverly Hills 90210` and '˜Models Inc.` At that time, I had pet rats I was raising and I always named all the baby rats after the characters in the shows.